Hi Sameer et al, I want to clarify a little on item #6 below.
I wasn't suggesting Braille specifically. All I know is that there is a school in Addis Ababa with 20 - 30 visually impaired kids who have XOs. They asked if we have any software which would be useful for them. It could be anything (text to speech, braille, something else). I got several responses on the accessibility list for ideas. Unfortunately, I can't be the lead person coordinating this. I can make an occasional suggestion and help get you in touch with the school in Ethiopia if/when you have some software available. If people are interested in working on this, my suggested steps are: 1 - Pick a person or two to coordinate the effort. 2 - Build a small group and identify skills (e.g. developers, testers, project managers, all around workers, etc) 3 - Start looking for target software to include or adapt and write new SW as needed. 4 - Test the software and show it works. 5 - Contact the school in Ethiopia and see if they are interested. Related threads include this on the accessibility list: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/accessibility/2008-October/000198.html Maybe this one on Speech to text: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-September/019136.html The first note here on community news about a group The Netherlands which may have experience with relevant software: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/community-news/2008-October/000152.html Sorry to pass the buck. I'm not as free to work on whatever I please as I used to be. This project could create a very rewarding relationship between kids and developers, so the potential pay off is big. The only down side is that it will take a lot of hard work. I suggest that we do not contact the school at all until we have a very solid grip on what might be possible. Thanks for your interest and let me know how it goes. Thanks, Greg S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Send OLPC-SF mailing list submissions to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-sf > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of OLPC-SF digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Notes from Saturday's meeting (Sameer Verma) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 23:19:10 -0700 > From: "Sameer Verma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [OLPC-SF] Notes from Saturday's meeting > To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED] SF" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Message-ID: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > We met at 10 am on Saturday, Oct 11, 2008. The conversations were around: > > 1) OLPC Jamaica: Four weeks of starting up the group. Photos are at: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/olpc/sets/72157607392432344/ Wiki at > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Jamaica Report coming soon. > > 2) Tom Daly's experiences in East Timor with FOSS software machines. > Most FOSS machines revert to Windows (pirated, of course) when left > unmanaged. Installation does not imply implementation. How can these > be sustained? Tom works for Sun Australia and has strong interests > with OLPC for East Timor. Tom is visiting the SF Bay Area. We spoke > about various school server placement options, hardware combos, > bandwidth availability, etc. > > 3) School server activities on platforms other than Fedora. What is > happening? Other distros such as Ubuntu, Debian, OpenSUSE, > OpenSolaris. What can be done? ISP hosting alternative solutions. What > takes up the most CPU cycles? RAM (squid, ejabberd)? Storage approach > - backing up the journal automatically, pushing out updates to XOs via > the school server seamlessly. > > 4) Meet in a library. Suggestion: SF Public Library. Centrally located > in SF, public, visible. Marketing to the library and visitors. Maybe a > table at a museum (Mel Chua's experience from MIT Museum)? > > 5) G1G1v2 ideas. Minimoo cards, t-shirts, bumper stickers, etc. New > ideas: t-shirt that says "Do you XO?" or "Got XO?" InfoCards for > country deployments. > > 6) Braille request that came from Greg Smith: What kind of devices do > they have? Are we talking about screen readers and magnifiers or > actual USB/Serial braille machines? > > 7) SF-LUG python classes. As an afterthought, I am throwing this in. > SF-LUG has started Python classes. Asheesh Laroia is teaching some > basics. Given that Sugar has most of the code in Python, it might be a > good idea for some cross-pollination. > > That's it for now. Next meeting in November! > > Sameer _______________________________________________ accessibility mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/accessibility
